I've tried to have rootnoverify (hd0,0) for the second line as well as just have chainloader +1 but like many other people, grub just seems to just keep coming back. I get the same error as the first poster

and then the system just hangs. This is right after installation, and i think it's because at first i started to compile the kernel myself, and then i went back and chose to use genkernel (i hadn't yet instlaled the kernel, just compiled myself). if anyone has any ideas, please let me know and thanks for your time =)

I'll also fost my fstab just incase there's a problem in there that's causing everything

This thread helpt me out with my grub config, I was stuck having problems with booting to windows on my seperate sata harddrive. I think I narrowed down the problem to have my grub to include makeactive like this

Anyone with further questions on this subject would really benefit on reading Darth Daver's explanation on how to dual boot using two physically seperate hard drives. The stuff above using MAP is part of his howto. The location of the how to is:[url] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=18319[/url].